http://www.thegenequest.com A voyage into the world of genetics and medicine Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:51:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a northern Indian village, a baby girl born with two faces is being worshiped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess. The little girl, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali's facial ... http://www.thegenequest.com/2008/04/09/baby-with-two-faces/ For most of the 20th Century, human genes were thought of as stable, identical sequences passed from generation to generation. However, this all changed in 1991 when an unstable, expanded trinucleotide repeat was found to be responsible for fragile X syndrome. Since that time, over 40 neurological, muscular, ... http://www.thegenequest.com/2007/08/25/nucleotide-expansion-diseases/ Did you know.... 1. DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. 2. DNA is part of our definition of a living organism. 3. DNA is found in all living things. 4. DNA was first isolated in 1869 by Friedrich Miescher. 5. James Watson and Francis Crick figured out the structure of DNA. 6. DNA is a double helix. 7. ... http://www.thegenequest.com/2007/08/24/100-facts-about-dna/ http://www.thegenequest.com/2007/08/24/the-colbert-report-on-dna/ Can you really fight cancer with a video game?? HopeLab thinks so! They created a PC-based video game, Re-Mission, to help young patients fight their terrible disease. In this game, an epic battle rages as cancerous invaders try to take over the bodies of young patients. Your job is ... http://www.thegenequest.com/2007/06/25/fighting-cancer-with-video-games/